 Hey guys, Thundee here and we are back with another professional camera review of the Huawei P30 Pro and I'm sorry it's taking this long to do this video. Just blame me, not Marion here. But again, this is Mr. Marion Sel who I've done these kind of videos with for about a year or so. Yeah, a little bit longer. Yeah, a little bit longer. We started with the Galaxy S9, we did the P20 Pro which you really liked last year. Yes. So were you excited to do the P30 Pro this year? Yes, I was just really curious what they brought to the new phone because the last one was a quite good product. Yeah, so Marion did the usual thing, he took it out into the water. I know he went kite sailing and took a bunch of pictures and we're going to check out what you thought of the P30 Pro and the photos he took. Let's do it. All right. Here we go, we're starting this time with the Portrait Mode. So usually maybe you don't remember after the mixed relationship with the Portrait Mode and most of the times I'm not a big fan of this mode but here on this phone for the first time it felt like it's pretty well achieved actually. So the phone has four lenses on the back side. There's a wide angle, a regular lens and the tele lens which is periscopic and there is a Z lens that is the lens that's dedicated to calculating the depth of the Portrait Mode shots. So in this particular case you see the image of my friend Tabish. He's obviously sharp and the lines of his kite are getting more and more and more unsharp towards the horizon which is really nice. As usual foreground pretty sharp but that's okay. The the corners around him are for the first time actually I think are really blending into the background in a nice manner. So there are a few digital artifacts but that seems to be acceptable. Generally it's a pretty well achieved Portrait Mode. Same here with my friend Prashemic who's obviously super stoked. Look how the the unsharpness of the background kind of actually nicely stops at shoulder and neck and head. It's pretty good. Another one of my friend Prashemic and our usual go-to model and it's so much fun. The Portrait Mode really does some cool things. I for the first time think that it's fun to play with this mode and here we are comparing a RAW file to a JPEG in a backlit environment and I remember in particular how the iPhone X as well as the Samsung did a really good job at backlit environments. I think the iPhone was actually my favorite and the Huawei P20 had when I first used it had some very screaming candy-like color environments and everything tried to look super happy but it seemed like Huawei tamed their color spectrum or tamed their color environment down a lot. So the JPEGs come in pretty color accurate which is of course not a bad thing but I guess if you would compare this now to a shot with the iPhone or the Samsung you might initially be a little bit underwhelmed by the file you get out of the Huawei. But I wanted to show you one thing here that is because it's backlit and the Huawei does not really try to like get too much HDR going on in the back in the dark for example. I wanted to show you what happens if I try in the JPEG to push the shadows and there is not a lot left so it's definitely a good idea to shoot RAW as well as maybe you will recognize how sharpen this image looks now in JPEG. Comparing to RAW this looks like a pretty neat file and I can start pushing the shadows and you get a lot of texture in the dark wetsuit of Tabish. It's pretty useful in this particular background environment to shoot RAW but I'm going to go into a tricky part of the RAW file in just a minute maybe you see how this file looks a little bit green compared to the JPEG which looks much more neutral. Here we go I did some action shots with Huawei with a long lens which is great because so they do something very clever with this phone there's a periscopic lens inside the housing which means that there is basically what you see when you look at the back of the phone is you see a mirror and the lens is sitting inside the housing with optical elements and it's being reflected through the mirror so basically that gives you a longer optical element hidden under the surface of the phone which is a very clever way of dealing with keeping the phone flat on the one hand but having a great lens on the other hand so but the reason why I want to show you these photos because I did a series of RAW action photos in the ocean and the long lens has a very hard time to getting the focus right it is when when you click on the screen and you tell it what to focus on then then it works but it's very slow as well as the phone requests you to hold the phone stable after a long lens shot has been taken just to do some sharpening and some some software things are happening there I don't know exactly what it is to be honest so I've got this shot here which is accidentally in focus and it's it's awesome because you even see Przemek's face and it's not it's not screaming you can basically use this shot and put curves on it and do do anything you want to it but all the other shots here are basically out of focus and the Huawei the long lens has a tendency to attempt to focus into the sky when there's an obvious subject in the foreground so maybe that's a software thing they can ameliorate okay and because I had a hard time getting the focus right at action shots with a long lens I switched to the normal photo mode which allows me to do burst shots so here you go this is pretty amazing the burst is really really cool you you just hold the camera at your at your body hit the button and every photo is a pretty high resolution great file so this made me very happy and this made my friend of course very happy he was like having one of the waves of his life like look at this so the burst mode is really cool and fun just get the focus right so the regular lens of the Huawei shoots 40 megapixel files if you want if you want that and I wanted to show you quickly one one big thing about shooting with small sensors so the center is in focus and it's actually impressively sharp you get lots of sun grains every little sun grain has its own details that's amazing but you lose the focus towards the edges of the frame and you have a really really drastic fall off of sharpness and and this is an environment where it's very obvious that you're operating a very strong sensor that is that is very small a point and shoot camera would make a huge difference on this one it would be much much sharper towards the edges but well on the other hand maybe when you're in a sandstorm at the beach you don't want to carry a nice point and shoot camera around with you so therefore I'm glad that I had a war way on me and finally and probably very important is the night mode because it's it's quite impressive what you can do with this camera Samsung and Google are also working on their night modes so this is like a big trend and for a good reason because I am very impressed what you can do with this phone when you're just walking through the streets at night or when you're in a bar or in a dark place and typically if you try to take photos like this you would probably need to bring a tripod and you have to put my like DSLR for example I would have to put it down I would have to put it on the tripod and then shoot a 10 second exposure and you do these photos with the war way just out of your hand and it's really amazing suddenly walking through a street at night really changes your like way of looking at things because it enables you this phone enables you to do scans of your environment which like this phone is basically better than my professional cameras at taking quick snapshots snapshots at night and that's because there's a lot of a lot of artificial intelligence thinking about whatever you're doing I think that this phone is a little bit less exaggerated in the nitro environment than the google phone for example which which made which for my perception destroyed the mood a little bit of the scene you're taking a photo of the war way does a little bit better job here and nonetheless you get a lot of a lot of funky environments like for example maybe you recognize here there's this spongy area which has neither a focus nor like a real color to it it's just like a wish a washed out noise but then on the other hand you get like green leaves at night that's that's pretty amazing like I'm I'm blown away actually this is something that's really fun to play with I wanted to show you this shot here though this is the night shot and in comparison this is a regular jpeg so the regular jpeg shot at 1250 ISO still is pretty good and here it is with all the shadows pushed let's look at this area here for example and in comparison to the night shot so the the night shot has a lot of noise and there's a lot of calculation happening inside the phone to make make the noise less apparent it's probably blurred out a little bit and the jpeg the at least this area which is only shadow has a very neutral color tone to it which is a little bit nicer but but well depending on what you want to use these images for the the night mode it's really fun to play with and definitely great files to send to your friends or like to do quick snapshot which snapshots outside on the street with your friends so a decent amount of detail to it but it stops looking like a real photograph it looks a little bit more like a painting to my eyes so what else did you like actually so we've tested two phones that also had wide angle lenses as of right now and or even ultra wide angle and as of right now those lenses were relying on a small f-stop to cover the whole depth of field instead of having active focus okay the Huawei actually has a an auto has a focusing ultra or not ultra wide sorry wide angle lens so the quality of the files is going to turn out a little bit better than on a phone that just relies on a small f-stop to cover the whole depth of field so you can even isolate with a wide angle lens you can even isolate an object in the foreground from a slightly more blurry background and that's actually pretty neat and the other thing that I really liked was that the phone whenever if you were taking photos on the long lens like in my case I was standing in the water kites of us coming I'm taking photos and I'm waiting for a minute and the phone falls asleep and when I wake it up it goes instantly back to the previously used mode which is very useful because you don't have to like go through your camera whenever the action is coming back at you you're just ready that's great oh one big advantage to the Samsung I want to say is that it also has the round edges so when I was holding the Samsung in my hand my fingertips always interfered with whatever was I was trying to do so sometimes it switched modes for me the Huawei doesn't do this so that's a big benefit for me at least great thing about this phone is the lenses there's like a long lens inside which is really really strong and it's lying inside the inside the body of the phone sideways and then there's the mirror to to reflect the light so it the phone remains very flat but still has optical elements to a long lens which is great and there is a wide angle lens which is always fun to play with and yeah I want to say I'd rather have great lenses in my pocket in a phone than bad lenses so this phone is definitely one of the one of the big flagships on the market these days I think okay but you do you did run into some I would say some coloring issues right yes absolutely so the interesting thing is the the regular lens the normal lens uses a RYB sensor so it doesn't have a green like it doesn't receive the color green anymore it receives twice yellow and which is great because you get 40% more light into your sensor basically on the other hand Huawei leaves you behind with a problem like when you're shooting raw files they come in also very green and now you can choose between buy yourself a color card which is about 80 to 130 dollars and putting it into all of your raw file frames just to get like color calibration or you have to use one of those to create a profile that you can then basically paste on all your incoming raw files but that's where things become very techy um seems like Huawei left us alone with not really not really giving us an easy solution to fix the colors they're coming in very very green actually a red flower suddenly as a raw file looks orange and not red or like an orange car looks what was it like yellow instead of orange yeah it's kind of funky um but it's obviously not what you want on the other hand the jpeg files come in pretty color accurate yeah I think it's something that um you know if you know you know whatever profiles that Huawei is using to calculate on the jpeg they should provide that at least so in adobe or something like that you can actually use to edit because that would be an easier process for for people using raw files yeah all right cool so it sounds like you really enjoyed this uh this camera yeah I did actually it was it was fun to play with and yeah it's a great little tool to having a pocket okay all right so so far this year um I know we've only done two um but is this is this more to your liking so far this year yeah of course yeah especially like having a serious long lens in your pocket of course it's always like the best camera is always the one that you have on you and I sometimes struggle with bringing a DSLR to the beat for example so therefore I can take some cool snap shots with the cell phone like it's a good replacement for me cool all right guys there you have it you've heard it from marian uh he likes the p30 pro there's some issues that he would like to see sorted out hopefully while we can sort it out with the next the mate 30 pro coming out later this year we'll see what happens with that but if you want to check out and follow marientel I have links for his social media uh he's an excellent photographer I mean he does fantastic stuff so definitely check it out and follow him on instagram I'll have a link for his instagram channel there as well uh otherwise thank you very much um I appreciate you guys watching again sorry this was late you know things happen but uh till next time hopefully you enjoy this and uh thank you see you next time